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Book cover of Roelant Savery’s Wondrous World, with a painting of a cockatoo perched on a tree branch. Published by Waanders Publishers.

Roelant Savery’s Wondrous World

By (author) Ariane van Suchtelen

$39.95

  • Roelant Savery (1578-1639) was among the large group of Flemish artists who arrived in the Northern Netherlands around 1600, during the Eighty Years' War
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Roelant Savery (1578-1639) was among the large group of Flemish artists who arrived in the Northern Netherlands around 1600, during the Eighty Years’ War. There, they were at the cradle of the great flowering of art in the 17th century. Savery was a highly versatile draughtsman and painter, specializing in landscapes, animal scenes and flower still lifes. With encyclopaedic precision, he depicted countless different species: animals, flowers but also people from various regions, from Bohemian peasants to Jewish believers in the synagogue. Savery became the painter of the extinct dodo from Mauritius. For more than a decade, Savery worked in the service of the Habsburg emperor Rudolf II in Prague, who sent him out to capture the landscapes and people of his empire. Coming from the Low Countries, the waterfalls in the Alps must have made a deep impression on the artist. After returning to the Netherlands, Roelant Savery settled in Utrecht, where he created a garden with precious flowers and plants behind his house. This way, he did not have to leave home to find inspiration for his flower still lifes.  

Specifications
Publisher
Waanders & de Kunst Publishers
ISBN
9789462625228
Published
12th Jul 2024
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
USA & Canada
Size
8.66 in x 10.24 in
Pages
160 Pages
Illustrations
100 color
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